hi everybody this is Ariane from
La Fille de la Mer, handmade soap shop in the Magdalen Islands
Quebec, Canada. Let me show you
what I'm getting ready to make.
The cupcake I'm gonna be making is my
loving spell type soapy cupcake. It's
made with love spell type fragrance oil
lemon essential oil and there's poppy seeds
in there. I also add on top some
little rosebuds that I pick from my
backyard in the summer. Many people ask
me for tips when it comes to making
soapy cupcakes. I can tell you that one
of the key is to practice okay! I did not
perform as well as today when I started.
Actually my first soapy cupcakes kind of
looked like that! Not perfect! And then
they got a little better but still
looked like that! So as you can see I was
not a pro at first but I continued to
make them and tweaked my recipes and
I worked really hard until I got what I
wanted. Let's get soaping! The first part
of the prep work for making cupcakes is
to prep my lye-water. I have the base
that I've identified with a permanent
marker and tape over it and I have the
frosting. Tt's not the same amount that
I'm using for the base and for the
frosting so these need to be clearly
identified. I'm going to be making 48
cupcakes today so everything needs to be
ready in advance. In these stock pots I
have the base for my cupcakes that is
melting down over low heat and then on
my counter I have my fragrance and
essential oil pre-measured.
I have the colorant for the base of my
cupcakes ready and then I have the
sodium lactate right here, my colorants,
my thermometer, my little mini mixer
and a couple utensils sitting in a clean
measuring cup. All of my cupcake liners
are ready as well as my piping bags, my
piping tips and my ornaments.
Let's go pour these "puppies"!
Once I poured the 24 first cupcakes,
I'm going for round two!
Okay let's make some frosting
Now is the thrilling part of making
cupcakes: the frosting! I'm always unsure
when I make the frosting as it can speed up
on me and then I can't pipe it out and
sometimes, well most of the time,
everything goes well and it ends up as a
happy ending! So let's go ahead and
put the lye-water in the oils. I always
make my cupcakes in small batches of 24.
24 is perfect for me to work with. Going
above that if I would make 48 cupcakes
in one single batch I could never handle
the piping bag! It's very heavy, soap is
heavy it's not like real cake icing
which you can pipe in bigger amounts
because it's fluffy and light. This is
thick and very dense. First thing I do is
I'm going to add my fragrance oil in
this patch, the love spell type fragrance
oil is a very well behaving oil in soap
so usually that won't be a problem for
the trace. It won't speed up trace. Okay
so I have split my batter in two
equal parts plus a little extra for my
top. I added some poppy seeds to one side
and then I'm adding some
colorant to the other.
The white batter is the perfect piping
consistency while the purple is a bit
more liquidy but the white is stiff
enough to start building this double
twist into my biggest ever piping bag.
It's an Ateco and I think it's a 24"
Okay so here's my piping bag it took me about
three and a half minutes to fill it up
while having you on camera because um
yeah it's kind of tricky to show you
these kind of things. I'm going to flip
the sides up, I'm gonna tap for air
bubbles and very slowly going to pull it
out and going to start piping dollops
on the top of my cupcakes.
My loving spell type soapy cupcakes
have been in the oven overnight and are
now ready to be unmolded. I leave the
light on just to keep them warm but no
other heat was applied. I will now unmold
them, remove the cupcake wrapper and
place them in the drying trays for the
next four weeks.
Thank you so much for watching this
video! If you've enjoyed the content you
can follow this link, it's a link to my
patreon channel, oops my patreon campaign
and you can support me by donating or
pledging a dollar or more a month. If you
would like to see where the rosebuds
were harvested you can check the video
right there, it'll show you how I harvest
these from my backyard and if you would
like to purchase one of these lovely
cupcakes well you can do so on my
webstore they will be available for
sale in about a month. So thanks for
watching and I will see you later!
Thank you!